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Here is a picture of Keira when she was born.





Here is Israel.

Another thumb sucker?

3 days old and already sucking his thumb. I wonder he will be like his sister... still sucking her thumb at 2 and 1/2.

Crazy outfits

Keira is very into her clothes lately. She picks out weird combo's of clothes that usually involve a dress and usually lack at least one necessary layer.

Contentment

The milk is in so little man is happier and content and alot less restless. But I have proven myself right again. My ultra- hiccupy- in- utereo- babies have both turned out to be super spitters. Israel has christened the floor 3 times already today... and we won't mention how many burp rags we have gone through.

Just a few more

Israel day 2

Baby boy

Getting weighed. 7 lbs 9 oz 19 1/2 inches long.






Israel Benedict Vigneau was born today 10-10- 2009 at 5:55 am at home... in our kitchen. :o)
As Mike mentioned contractions started at 1 am. I woke Mike up at 2 am, midwife arrived at 3 :30. Midwife broke my water at 5:15 and he was born shortly after. The at home labor was fabulous!! We had the lights dim, candles lit and relaxing music playing. Keira slept through the whole thing.
ohhh and the winner of the date prediction is me... My guess was 10/10. :o) The winner of the weight prediction was Emily Ruiz.
He was born 4 days early- exactly like Keira. Labor time was 5 hours pretty similar to Keira was well.
Otherwise we are all fine.. I tore a bit so I am sore of course but that is par for the course I guess. Now I am enjoying my lunch sans heartburn or nausea. Thank God!!! :o)

The time has come for extraction!

Ok...looks like we are in the middle of this. It is currently 3:50AM and she is currently 6cm dilated.

It all started this morning (actually 39 weeks and 4 days ago), but Tanya had an appointment with her midwife. She has been miserable the entire time, so now that we were so close and the kid was "done cooking", she asked her midwife if she could move things along at all?

We knew we were in for an interesting day. I went to start the truck at 7:45 this morning and...no dice. The battery was dead. So I jumped it with the "van car" and went to work. I usually come home for lunch, so around lunchtime I went to start the truck and, you guessed it, no starty! Dangit. Call Tanya because we need a new battery as we need both vehicles working in case someone needs to take Keira from the festivities when they started. She comes with the Van and we jump the truck again, head to Sears and $113 we have a new battery. I also picked up my new Compound Mitre Saw at the same time since it was on sale. The contractions had already begun by this time since it was post-midwife check but they weren't timable/regular yet.

Around 10:30AM, the midwife some maneuvering down there - pulled her cervix forward and disrupted her membranes without actually sweeping them (Is that like sweep the leg, Johnny?).

Of course that caused something as the contractions started soon after. They occur until about 6PM when she lays down after putting Keira to bed.

After work, I head to Anthony and Natalie's to help start installing the hardwood flooring. I get home about 10PM. Tanya wakes me up at 2AM and says she has been having contractions about 2-5 min apart and that I need to start putting plastic down. I reluctantly :) get up and get to work. Do not give an OCD person plastic and tape...because everything is now covered in plastic - well almost everything because Tanya stopped me.

And that is where we are now.

WHY???????

am I still pregnant??? Get out! Get out ! Get out Little boy!!! The timer has gone off... you are starting to get over cooked... you might want to think of moving south. You do not belong in here anymore! Just get out before I lose my mind!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Checking out the neighbor's Halloween decorations.

The artist and the princess

Fingerpainting






















We are borrowing this great princess dress from the Sullivans. Keira LOVES it and wears it pretty much all day long ( minus when she is sleeping or eating.) And yes the full moon failed to work its magic. Still pregnant!

Moon

Fun fact. Keira was born on a day with a full moon. Tonight is a full moon. I was hoping the moon might get things going but being that its 7 pm and I am not feeling anything despite wearing myself out taking care of Keira all day and cleaning up after the window installation I am annoyed!!!!
I am so impatient and I don't want to be pregnant one more second!!!

Old and new

Mike replaced the tiny window in the soon to be born ( we hope!) baby boy's nursery. Its now a large double window. Its an east facing window so there is great sunlight on that side of the house in the am. Thanks to Anthony, Hippert and Mike's dad who spent hours here helping Mike install the window. The demo in that room is complete and now its on to the remodel /construction.

I'm getting cranky.....

Besides the fact that I would just really like to wake up not feeling nauseous for the first time since January. And besides the fact I would love to enjoy my breakfast or my lunch or dinner or maybe all three. I just really want to SLEEP. Not the sleep of a pregnant person. The sleep of a normal person! Yes Yes I know. Newborns are not known for being great night sleepers. But Keira actually was so don't burst my bubble and let me just go on thinking and hoping that this kid sleeps like Keira.
Please baby boy.... I am so so tired of being your incubator. I'm giving you until Oct 4th because I know the full moon does strange things...... show up! Or I am filing legal action!
ohhh and don't worry about the fact that you are nameless. We will figure it out after we see your face!